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I F instead of a gem or even a 
flower, we could cast the gift 
of a rich thought into the 
heart of a friend, that would 
be giving as the angels give/' 




aTduar)^ 



IF YOU'RE WAKING CALL ME 
EARLY, CALL ME EARLY, 
MOTHER DEAR, 

FOR I WOULD SEE THE SUN RISE 
UPON THE GLAD NEW YEAR. 

TENNTSON. 




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^SiPtC^^eY: 



JANUARY I. 

God's in his heaven — 
All's right with the world ! 

Browning. 

JANUARY 2. 

Write it on your heart that every day 
is the best day of the year. 

Emerson. 



•CatctjTDorbs 



JANUARY 3. 

Hope and keep busy. 

Mrs. Abigail May Alcott. 

JANUARY 4. 

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life 
is worth living, and your belief will help 
create the fad:. 

William James. 



^StotC^eet: 



JANUARY 5. 

The one eternal lesson for us all is 
how better we can love. 

Henry Drummond. 



JANUARY 6. 

"Don't worry about your work. Do 
what you can, let the rest go, and smile 
all the time." 



'CatcftTOorbs 



JANUARY 7. 

A thankful spirit turns all that touch- 
es it into happiness. 

William Law. 



JANUARY 8. 

Brother, thou hast possibility in thee 
for much : the possibility of writing on 
the eternal skies the record of a heroic 
life. 

Carlyle. 



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J^^K^3^^^^5 



JANUARY 9. 

Let us never doubt. That which 
ought to happen will happen. 

Harriet Beecher Stowe. 



JANUARY 10. 

The entire objecfl of true education 
is to make people not only do the right 
things, but enjoy the right things. 

Ruskin. 



^C^itcbtoor^s 



JANUARY II. 

Our first duty is to become healthy. 

Havelock Ellis. 



JANUARY 12. 

No one is living aright unless he so 
lives that whoever meets him goes away 
more confident and joyous for the con- 
tact. 

Lilian Whiting. 



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JANUARY 13, 

The only way to have a friend is to 
be one. 

Emerson. 



JANUARY 14. 

To maintain oneself on this earth is 
not a hardship but a pastime, if one will 
live simply and wisely, 

Thoreau. 



JANUARY 15. 

"Advantages are obligations/* 

JANUARY 16. 

This life of mine 
Must be lived out and a grave thoroughly 

earned, 
So on I drive — enjoying all I can, 
And knowing all I can. 

Browning. 



^LOtCy)eeT$m 



JANUARY 17. 
"The best worship is stout working.'* 

JANUARY 18. 

The wealth of a man is the number 
of things he loves and blesses, which he 
is loved and blessed by. 

Car/y/e. 



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JANUARY 19. 

Never despair! Lost hope is a fatal 
disease. 

Chicago Medical Times. 



JANUARY 20. 

To give pleasure to a single heart by 
a single kind ad: is more than a thou- 
sand head-bowings in prayer. 

Saadi. 



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JANUARY 21. 

Where a man can live, there he can 
live well. 

Marcus Aurelius. 



JANUARY 22. 

If we do our duty in the present state 
we have no occasion to worry over the 
future state. 

John C. Lamed. 



[C^tcbTOor^s 



JANUARY 23. 

"To have what we want is riches, but 
to do without is power/' 



JANUARY 24. 

Behold, I do not give lectures or a little 

charity ; 
When I give, I give myself. 

fValt Whitman. 



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JANUARY 25. 

Happiness is a great love and much 
serving. 

Olive Shreiner. 



JANUARY 26. 

Seen in their true relations, there is 
no experience of life over which we have 
a right to worry. 

Anna Robertson Brown. 



'C^tcb'worbs 



JANUARY 27. 

Love is life. The unloving merely 
breathe. 

Christopher North. 



JANUARY 28. 

Every man should keep a fair-sized 
cemetery in w^hich to bury the faults of 
his friends. 

Henry Ward Beecher. 



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JANUARY 29. 

Give pleasure. Lose no chance of 
giving pleasure. 

Henry Drummond. 



JANUARY 30. 

All things come to him who waits — 
and labors while he waits. 

Llebnetre. 






JANUARY 31. 

"That which is exceptional and dis- 
tinctive in human nature is not its vice 
but its excellence." 




ebraarj) 



THE NIGHT IS MOTHER OF THE 

DAY, 
THE WINTER OF THE SPRING, 
AND EVER UPON OLD DECAY 
THE GREENEST MOSSES SPRING. 

WHITTIER, 




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FEBRUARY I. 

There never was a right endeavor but 
it succeeded. 

Emerson. 



FEBRUARY 2. 

If the Athenians desire good citizens 
let them put whatever is beautiful into 
the ears of their sons. 

Delphic Oracle. 



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FEBRUARY 3. 

If you have knowledge let others light 
their candles by it. 

Thomas Fuller. 



FEBRUARY 4. 

What do we live for if not to make 
the world less difficult for each other ? 

George Eliot. 



*CatCl)TOOT^S 



FEBRUARY 5. 

The soul would have no rainbow 
Had the eyes no tears. 

John Vance Cheney, 



FEBRUARY 6. 

If we could read the secret history of 
our enemies, we should find in each 
man^s life sorrow and suffering enough 
to disarm all hostility. 

Longfellow. 



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tSiOf Ch ceriKH^^ 



FEBRUARY 7. 

Life's prizes are not gifts : they must 
be won. 

Charles M. Skinner. 



FEBRUARY 8. 

A man should be ashamed to take his 
food if he has not alchemy enough in 
his stomach to turn it into intense and 
enjoyable occupation. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



[CatCt)t»0T5S 



FEBRUARY 9. 

Not what you do, but how you do it, 
is the test of your capacity. 

Dr. J. M. Siudley. 



FEBRUARY 10. 

Hasten slowly, and without losing 
heart, put your work twenty times on 
the anvil. 

Boileau. 



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FEBRUARY II. 

This world's no blot for us. 
Nor blank ; it means intensely, and 
means good. 

Browning. 



FEBRUARY 12. 

Such help as we can give each other 
in this world is a debt we owe each 
other. 

Ruskin. 



^K^CatcbwoT^s 



FEBRUARY 13. 

My treasures are my friends. 

Const^ntius. 

FEBRUARY 14. 

The great thing in this world is not 
so much where we stand as in what 
dire<ftion we are going. 

O. H^. Holmes. 



^iPtC^eerM^ 



FEBRUARY 15. 

I have always told you that not hav- 
ing enough sunshine is what ails the 
world. 

Lydia Maria Child. 



FEBRUARY 16. 

Amidst all the mysteries by which we 
are surrounded, nothing is more certain 
than that we are in the presence of an 
Infinite and Eternal Energy from which 
all things proceed. 

Herbert Spencer. 



'C^tctjTOorbs 



FEBRUARY 17. 

Daily matters are the very highest, 

Auerbach. 



FEBRUARY 18. 

It is not enough to be industrious ; so 
are the ants. What are you industrious 
about. 

Thoreau. 



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FEBRUARY 19. 

Be true, if you would be believed. 

Carlyle. 

FEBRUARY ao 

Tomorrow you have no business with. 
You steal if you touch tomorrow. It is 
God's. Every day has in it enough to 
keep any man occupied without con- 
cerning himself with the things beyond. 

Henry Ward Beecher. 



'Catcljioorbs 



FEBRUARY 21. 

Cultivate health instead of treating 
disease. 

Ruskin. 



FEBRUARY 22. 

If religion has done nothing for your 
temper, it has done nothing for your 
soul. 

Clayton. 



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FEBRUARY 23. 

**The value of a thing is the peace 
of mind it gives you/' 



FEBRUARY 24. 

When the hour of trouble comes to 
the mind or the body, and when the 
hour of death comes, that comes to high 
and low, then it is na what we hae dune 
for oursells, but what we hae dune for 
others, that we think on maist pleasantly. 

Sir Walter Scott. 



^C^tCbtOOTbS 



FEBRUARY 25. 

If I have made an appointment with 
you, I owe you punctuality. 

Rev. Richard Cecil. 



FEBRUARY 26. 

Mind is the partial side of men ; the 
heart is everything. 

Comte de Riverol. 



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^iOf-Cbcetm: 



FEBRUARY 27. 

A cheerful face is the end of culture 
and success enough. 

Emerson. 



FEBRUARY 28. 

Honesty is not only ^^the first step 
toward greatness''; — it is greatness itself. 

C. C. Bovee. 






^atct)toorbs! 



FEBRUARY 29. 

Work is given to men not only . . . 
because the world needs it, but because 
the workman needs it. . . . Work makes 



men. 



Henry Drummond. 



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"I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE SUN- 
WARD ; 

I JOIN THE GREAT MARCH ON-. 
WARD, 

AND TAKE WITH JOY WHILE 
LIVING, 

MY FREEHOLD OF THANKSGIV- 
ING." 




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MARCH I. 

Out of the lowest depth there is a 
path to the loftiest height. 

Carlyle. 



MARCH a. 

Take what Heaven or Circumstance 
has sent, and bend it to the making of 
a man, 

James H. West. 



^iOf-C^eevm 



MARCH 3. 

"In every soul is deposited the germ of 
a great future." 



MARCH 4. 

In this world it is not what we take 
up, but what we give up, that makes us 
rich. 

Henry V/ard Beecher. 



[CatcbTOorbs 



MARCH 5. 

What we see depends mainly on what 
we look for. 

Sir John Lubbock. 



MARCH 6. 

We all make mistakes and it takes 
many experiences to shape a life. Try 
again and let us help you, 

Louisa Alcott. 



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MARCH 7, 

Sleep and rest abundantly. Sleep is 
Nature's benedidlion. 

Chicago Medical Times. 



MARCH 8. 

Do you ask to be the companion of 
nobles ? Make yourself noble and you 
shall be. 

Ruskin. 



^C'atcb'worbs 



MARCH 9. 

"Man never saw a duty beyond his 
strength." 



MARCH 10. 

"What helped you over the great ob- 
stacles of life?" was asked a successful 
man. "The other obstacles," he replied. 



^lOf- Cheers 



MARCH II. 

Take what is, trust what may be. 
That's lifVs true lesson. 

Browning. 



MARCH 12. 

If it be my lot to crawl, I will crawl 
contentedly ; if to fly, I will fly with 
alacrity ; but, as long as I can avoid it, 
I will never be unhappy. 

Sidney Smith. 



*Catcl)i»or^s 



MARCH 13. 

The essential thing is not knowledge, 
but charad:er. 

Joseph Le Conte. 



MARCH 14. 

Thou Primal Love, who grantest wings 
And voices to the woodland birds, 

Grant me the power of saying things 
Too simple and too sweet for words. 

Coventry Patmore. 



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MARCH 15. 

"He best worships God who best 
serves men." 



MARCH 16. 

I do not say that humanity is on the 
road to the heights ; I believe it in spite 
ofall. 

George Sand. 



I^Catcb'worbs 



MARCH 17. 

Cleave to the simplest ever. 

Thoreau. 



MARCH 18. 

Be noble and the nobleness that lies 
In other men, sleeping, but never dead. 
Will rise in majesty to meet thine own. 

Lowell. 



^kpf- CyyeerM:. 



MARCH 19. 

All suppression of selfishness makes 
the moment great. 

Lydia Maria Child. 



MARCH ao. 

He who knows what secrets and vir- 
tues are in the ground, the waters, the 
plants, the heavens, and how to come at 
these enchantments, — is the rich and 
royal man. 

Emerson. 



^C^tcbtooTbs 



MARCH 21. 

We suffer most from the ills that 
never happen, 

Gascoigne Proverb, 



MARCH 22. 

The whole significance of our being 
is that we are made imperfed:, and are 
called upon to be perfect. 

William M. Salter, 



^of cyyctr^m^m. 



MARCH 23. 

True Christianity is the brotherhood 
of men, 

Tolstoi. 



MARCH 24. 

The effective men are still, as in the 
time of Homer, those who ever with a 
"frolic welcome'' take the sunshine or 
the storm. 

David Starr Jordan. 



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MARCH 25. 

Self-trust is the first secret of success. 

Emerson. 

MARCH 16. 

Every life should add to the sum to- 
tal of the world's sweetness and light. 

T. J. Hosmer. 



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MARCH 27. 
"Self-made or never made." 



MARCH 28. 

'I wiir is a projedlile that hits the 
mark ; a power that moves mountains. 

Henry Wood. 



'C'atcb'worbs 



MARCH 29. 

If you want immortality, make it. If 
you want your soul saved, make it worth 
saving. 

Joaquin Miller. 



MARCH 30. 

Happiness consists not in having 
much, but in wanting no more than 
you have. 

Lydia Maria Child. 



^of Cbp^t^iK 



MARCH 31. 

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it 
interwoven into the fabric of the world. 

Ruskin. 



S^fi- 




WHEN PROUD-PIED APRIL, 

DRESSED IN ALL HIS TRIM, 

HATH PUT A SPIRIT OF YOUTH 
IN EVERYTHING. 

SHAKESPEARE. 




[CatcbwoT^s 



APRIL I. 

The indigent world could be clothed 
out of the trimmings of the vain. 

Goldsmith. 



APRIL 2. 

You cannot dream yourself into a 
character. You must hammer and forge 
yourself one. 

Froude. 



^lOf- C^eevm:, 



APRIL 3. 

I call that man idle who might be 
better employed. 

Socrates. 



APRIL 4. 

If we were charged so much a head 
for sunsets, or if God sent round a drum 
before the hawthornes come into flower, 
what a work we should make about 
their beauty. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



'CatcbTOor^s 



APRIL 5. 

To believe in men is the first step 
toward helping them. 

"The Outlook. 



APRIL 6. 

The sweetest music is not in oratorios, 
but in the human voice when it speaks 
from the instant life tones of tenderness, 
truth and courage. 

Hiram Carson. 



?2ipf Ch^erMM^M 



APRIL 7. 

Friend, what you'd get, first earn. 

Browning. 

APRIL 8. 

It is only those who do not know how 
to work that do not love it ; to those 
who do, it is better than play — it is 
religion. 

Jennie June* 



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APRIL 9. 
"Keep the light in your face." 

APRIL 10. 

Ten men have failed from defe6t in 
morals where one man has failed from 
defed: in intellect. 

Horace Mann. 



APRIL II. 
**Our pursuits are our prayers/* 

APRIL 12. 

Be sure no man was ever discontented 
with the world who did his duty in it. 

Southey. 



^C^tcbtooTbs 



APRIL 13. 

Anxiety is the poison of human life. 

Rev. D. Blair. 



APRIL 14. 

No person will have occasion to com- 
plain of the want of time who never 
loses any. 

Thomas Jefferson. 



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APRIL 15. 

They can, because they believe they 
can. 

VirgiL 



APRIL 16. 

**Of all diversions for an anguished 
and sorrowr-laden soul there is none 
comparable to a bit of honest work/' 



APRIL 17, 

Never Fear and never Cry. 



Prof. Jowett. 



APRIL 18. 

You can't buy a home. A man buys 
a house — but only a vv^oman can make 
it a home. A house is a body, a home 
is a soul. 

The Outlook. 



^iptC^QCT: 



APRIL 19. 

You keep young as long as you keep 
giving out. 

/r. M. Hunt. 



APRIL 20. 

Suffer if you must. . . . Only try, if 
you are to suffer, to do it splendidly. 
That's the only way to take up a pleas- 
ure or a pain. 

Phillips Brooks. 



^Catcbtoorbs 



APRIL 21. 

Why does anyone put on black for 
the guests of God ? 

Ruskin. 



APRIL 22. 

In each and all lie the opportunities 
of an archangel ; as the majestic oak lies 
enfolded in the acorn. 

Lydia Maria Child. 




^lOfC^^evM 



APRIL 23. 

I used to hold by the instrudted brain — 
The heart leads surelier. 

Browning. 



APRIL 24. 

There is no beautifier of the complex- 
ion, or form, or behavior, like the wish 
to scatter joy and not pain around us. 

Emerson. 



^Catctjioorbs 



APRIL 25. 

There is a true church wherever one 
hand meets another helpfully. 

Ruskin. 



APRIL 26. 

Make your failure tragical by the 
earnestness of your endeavor, and then it 
will not differ from success. 

Thoreau. 



^LOtcy)eetm 



APRIL ay. 

Optimists are of God. 

Henry Wood. 

APRIL 28. 

It's going on and up that's the fun of 
studying ; not arriving at the place. 
Arriving is the end. 

W. M. Hunt. 



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APRIL 29. 

If I cannot realize my ideal, I can at 
least idealize my real. 

W. C. Gannett. 



APRIL 30. 

The trick is, I find, to tone your wants 
and tastes low enough, and make much 
of negations, and mere daylight and the 

skies. 

Walt Whitman. 




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LET US FILL URNS WITH ROSE- 
LEAVES IN OUR MAY 

AND HIVE THEIR THRIFTY 

SWEETNESS FOR DECEMBER. 

E. BULfFER LTTTON. 




^C'atCtjTOOTbS 



MAY I. 
"Our Ideals are our Possibilities." 

MAY a. 

Associate with healthy people. Health 
is contagious as well as disease. 

Chicago Medical Times. 



^of Cbeei*^ 



MAY 3. 

Whoever quarrels with his fate, does 
not understand it. 

Bettine. 



MAY 4. 

The only man who never makes a 
mistake is the man who never does any- 
thing. 

Theodore Roosevelt, 



^CatcbTOorbs 



MAY 5. 

What comes from the heart goes to 
the heart. 

Coleridge. 



MAY 6. 

When any calamity is suffered, the 
first thing to be remembered is, how 
much has been escaped. 

Dr. Samuel Johnson. 



tSiof Cb ccr^e^SM 



MAY 7. 

Set your shoulder joyously to the 
world's wheel. 

Havelock Ellis. 



MAY 8. 

The essentials of an elegant comfort 
are not difficult to procure. It is only 
vanity that is insatiable in consuming. 

Carlyle. 



[C^tcftworbs 



MAY 9. 

The very flowers that bend and meet 
In sweetening others grow more vSweet. 

O. W. Holmes. 



MAY 10. 

Know your own world first — not 
denying any other, but being sure that 
the place where you are now put is the 
place with which you are now concerned. 

Ruskin. 



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MAY II. 

Ease is the way to disease. 

Sir Andrew Clark. 



MAY 12. 

You can help your fellow-men. You 
must help your fellow-men. But the 
only way you can help them is by being 
the noblest and the best man that it is 
is possible for you to be. 

Phillips Brooks. 



^CatcbTOorbs 



MAY 13 

Do not bark against the bad, but chant 
the beauty of the good. 

Emerson. 



MAY 14. 

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; 
spend yourself on the work before you. 
. • . The right performance of this 
hour's duties will be the best preparation 
for the hours and ages that follow/' 



^SiOf O) P^t*:^ 



MAY 15. 

We cannot all live in palaces ; but 
we can all live in the kingdom of God. 

Lilian Whiting. 



MAY 16. 

We are ruined, not by v^hat we really 
want, but by what we think we do. 

C. C. Colton. 



[CatcbTOorbs 



MAY 17. 

To think success brings success. 

Prentice Mulford. 



MAY 18. 

Desire joy and thank God for it. 
Renounce it, if need be, for others' sake. 
That's joy beyond joy. 

Browning. 



^SiPtC^Ctr: 



MAY 19. 

The man of pleasure does not know 
what pleasure means. 

Minot J. Savage. 



MAY 20. 

The happiest heart that ever beat, 
Was in some quiet breast 

That found the common daylight sweet, 
And left to heaven the rest. 

John Vance Cheney. 



^Catcb'worbs 



MAY 21. 

A loving heart is the beginning of all 
knowledge. 

Carlyle. 



MAY 22. 

Our sensitiveness makes half our pov- 
erty ; our fears, — anxieties for ills that 
never happen, — the greater part of the 
other half. 

C. C. Bovee. 



^iOfC^eer^ 



MAY 23. 

To love and win is the best thing ; to 
love and lose the next best. 



MAY 24. 

The habit of looking on the best side 
of every event is worth more than a 
thousand pounds a year. 

Dr. Samuel Johnson. 



•CatcbTOor^s 



MAY 25. 

Some defeats are only instalments of 
vi6tory, 

Jacob A. Riis, 



MAY 26. 

The sovereign source of melancholy 
is repletion. Need and struggle are what 
excite and inspire us. 

William James. 



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MAY 27, 

Religion is not a creed but a life, 

Minot J. Savage. 

MAY 28, 

To know what you prefer, instead of 
saying *Amen' to what the world tells 
you you ought to prefer, is to have kept 
your soul alive. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



^Catcbworbs 



MAY 29. 

I repeat, money is not wealth. 

Lydia Maria Child. 

MAY 30. 

"Make one person happy each day 
and in forty years you have made 14,600 
human beings happy for a little time at 
least." 



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MAY3I. 

The difference between one boy and 
another lies not so much in talent as in 
energy. 

Dr. Thomas Arnold. 




UTiei 




AND WHAT IS SO RARE AS A DAY 

IN JUNE? 
THEN, IF EVER, COME PERFECT 

DAYS. 




^C2itcb'Wor^s 



JUNE I. 

No gain 
That I experience must remain 
Unshored, 



Browning. 



JUNE 2. 

I lean my hand against the day 
To feel its bland caressing ; 

I will not let it pass away 

Before it leaves its blessing. 

JVhittier. 



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JUNE 3. 

The reward is in keeping the com- 
mandments, not for keeping them. 

Lydia Maria Child. 



JUNE 4. 

"Fear not tomorrows. 
Child of the King. 
Leave them to Jesus, 

Doe the next thynge." 



>Catcl)TOor6s 



JUNE 5. 

A single grateful thought toward 
heaven is the most perfed: prayer. 

Lessing. 



JUNE 6. 

They who bring sunshine to the 
hearts of others cannot keep it from 
themselves, 

J. M. Barrie. 



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JUNE 7. 

Not failure, but low aim is crime. 

LowelL 



JUNES. 

The secret of eternal life and happi- 
ness is to be ever pushing forward to- 
ward the new, or ^^forgetting the things 
which are behind, and pressing forward 
to those which are before/' 

Prentice Mulford. 



^Catct)t»orbs 



JUNE 9. 

Drudgery is the gray Angel of Suc- 
cess. 

fF. C. Gannett. 



JUNE 10. 

Laughing cheerfulness throws the 
light of day on all around. 

Ricbter. 



^tof Cheers 



JUNE II. 

You can never lead unless you lift. 
Edward Everett Hale. 



JUNE 12. 

If I cannot do great things, I can do 
small things in a great way. 

James Freeman Clarke. 



^CatcbTOor^s 



JUNE 13. 

Goodness that does not grow is not 
goodness at all. 

W. W. Fenn. 



JUNE 14. 

He is rich or poor according to what 
he is, not according to what he has. 

Henry Ward Beecher. 



^lOtC^cev: 



JUNE 15. 

They who love are but one step from 
heaven. 

Lowell. 



JUNE 16. 

"We read too many books, see too 
many people, talk too much. 



JUNE 17- 

Life is not a holiday but an education, 

Henry Drummond. 

JUNE i8. 

He who has the truth in his heart 
need never fear the want of persuasion 
on his tongue. 

Ruskin. 



iSLOf C^eermM^m 



JUNE 19. 

Character is higher than intelled:. 

Emerson. 



JUNE 20. 

God . . . meant 
I should ever be, as I am, content. 
And glad in His sight, therefore glad 
I will be. 



Browning. 



^Catcbtoorbs 



JUNE 21. 

It is the spoken love that feeds. 

W. C. Gannett. 



JUNE 22. 

To owe an obligation to a worthy 
friend is a happiness. 

R. De Charron. 



^^fCy)eeT: 



JUNE 23, 

^*Wealth should give choice of work, 
not exemption." 



JUNE 24. 

Do not forget that even as ^to work 
is to worship', so to be cheery is to 
worship also ; and to be happy is the 
first step to being pious. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



^C^tCbWOT^S 



JUNE 25. 

*^Let us try to find out what it is *to 
give ourselves'/' 



JUNE 26. 

A woman who creates and sustains a 
home, and under whose hands children 
grow up to be strong and pure men and 
women, is a creator second only to God. 

Helen Hunt. 



^of C^eer^M^m 



JUNE 27. 

This is the beginning of all gospels, 
that the kingdom of heaven is just where 
we are. 

The Churchman. 



JUNE 28. 

No man was ever known to get a 
cent's worth without paying in some 
form or other the cent. 



JCatcbTOorbs 



JUNE 29. 

"Praise is the best diet for us after 
all." 



JUNE 30. 

He who can appreciate merit has the 
germ of it in his own soul. 

Goethe. 




ulv 



(IMS? 



'f^mm^^i 



A HAPPY SOUL, THAT ALL THE 

WAY 
TO HEAVEN HATH A SUMMER'S 

DAY. 

RICHARD CRASHAW. 




^C'atcbteoTbs 



JULY 1. 

Men are what their mothers made 
them. 

Emerson. 



JULY a. 

We mount to heaven mostly on the 
ruins of our cherished schemes, finding 
our failures were our successes. 

A. Branson Alcott. 



I 



^lOf-C^cer^ 



JULY 3. 

There is no real life but cheerful life* 

Addison. 

JULY 4. 

My country is the world ; my coun- 
trymen are all mankind. 

William Lloyd Garrison. 



>Catcbworbs 



JULY 5, 

Love is the most effectual prayer. 

Dugnet. 

JULY 6. 

To make some nook of God's crea- 
tion a little fruitfuller ... to make 
some human heart a little wiser, man- 
fuller, happier ... It is work for a God. 

Carlyk. 



^SiOf- C^cersm 



JULY 7. 

Anxiety is a form of cowardice em- 
bittering our lot. 

JVilliam Ellery Channing. 



JULY 8. 

The most obvious lesson of the gos- 
pel is, that there is no happiness in having 
and getting, only in giving. 

Henry Drummond. 



'C^tcbworbs 



JULY 9. 

I love a hand that meets mine own 
With grasp of some sensation. 

Mrs. F. S. Osgood. 



JULY 10. 

Some of your griefs you have cured. 

And the sharpest you still have sur- 
vived, 
But what torments of pain you endured 

From evils that never arrived. 

From the French. 



iSiof C^eeriis 



JULY II. 

Who conqucreth all within, may dare 
the world outside. 

W. W. Story. 



JULY 12. 

I do not know of any way so sure of 
making others happy as of being so my- 
self, to begin with. 

Arthur Helps. 



^C^tCt)TO0T6S 



JULY 13. 

A word warm from the heart enrich- 
es me. 

Emerson. 



JULY 14. 

"Were life earnest, and true to the 
instindls, it would be music and song/' 



ts^of CbP^t* 



^^^f^^m\^^ 



JULY 15. 

Wisely and slowly : they stumble that 
run fast. 

Shakespeare. 



JULY 16. 

No one is useless in this world who 
lightens the burden of it for any one 
else, 

Dickens. 



'CatcbTOprbs 



JULY 17. 

"Our daily life should be sandiified by 
doing common things in a religious 
way/' 



JULY 18. 

His face was a thanksgiving for his 
past life, and a love-letter to all man- 
kind. 

Richter. 



^^OtC^Q^TM 



JULY 19. 

"Simplicity and sunshine will heal 
most ills." 



JULY 20. 

Any brave man may make out a life 
which shall be happy for himself, and 
by so doing, beneficent to those about 
him. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



^C^tcbTOor^s 



JULY 21. 

No life is successful until it is radiant. 

Lilian Whiting. 

JULY 22. 

**If you want much of a small income, 
always ask yourself these two questions. 
. . . Do I really want it? Can I do 
without it ? These two questions honest- 
ly answered will double your income.'* 



^iOfC^eetM 



JULY 23. 
Enjoy the littles of every day. 



The Family Friend. 



JULY 24. 

I am much disposed the longer I live, 
to set less value upon mere cleverness, 
and to think that the power of endurance 
with persistence, is the most valuable of 
all. 

Huxley. 



^CatCljtOOTdS 



JULY 25. 

Everything is interesting if you only 
make a study of it. 

/T. M. Hunt. 



JULY a6. 

On the whole, we make too much of 
faults; . . . Faults? The greatest of 
faults, I should say, is to have none. 

Carlyle. 



^^tCyicevM 






JULY 27. 

The aim if reached or not makes 
great the life. 

Browning, 



JULY 28. 

To make yourself humble with the 
unfortunate, to weep with the poor, to 
venerate what is good ... to live on 
very little, to give away nearly all . . . 
that is the religion I shall proclaim in 
some little corner of my own. 

George Sand. 



[CatcbTOpTbs 



JULY 29. 

It is not enough to love others ; we 
must let them know that we love them. 

7. R. Miller. 



JULY 30. 

Expedt men and women to be gen- 
erous and noble and they will be gener- 
ous and noble. 

James Freeman Clarke. 



^ipf-ch^^^- 



JULY31. 

The thought *I am poor and thou art 
rich' ought never to enter to interrupt 
the flowing of human souls toward each 
other. 

Lydia Maria Child. 




UQfU^t' 



"TO HIM IN VAIN THE ENVIOUS 
SEASONS ROLL, 
WHO BEARS ETERNAL SUMMER 
IN HIS SOUL." 




*C^atchTOorbs 



AUGUST I. 

Living is growing . . . growing is 
out-growing. 

Bishop J. L. Spalding. 

AUGUST 2. 

There is not any benefit so glorious 
in itself but it may be exceedingly sweet- 
ened and improved by the manner of 
giving it. 

Seneca. 



^Of Cb^^f:^ 






AUGUST 3. 

Falsehood is the essence of all sin. 

Carlyle. 

AUGUST 4. 

** Every tomorrow has two handles. 
We can take hold of it by the handle of 
anxiety or the handle of faith." 



^C^tcbtoorbs 



AUGUST 5. 

All great actions have been simple. 

Abraham Lincoln. 



AUGUST 6. 

Give us to awake with smiles, give us 
to labor smiling. ... As the sun light- 
ens the world, so let our loving kind- 
ness make bright this house of our habi- 
tation. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



^of C^cet^:^ 



AUGUST 7. 

There is no age to the spirit that lives 
in high sentiments. 

William M. Salter. 



AUGUST 8. 

The man who would be truly happy 
should not study to enlarge his estate, 
but to contract his desires. 

Plato. 



^Catct)TOOTbs 



AUGUST 9. 

He is the best physician who is the 
most ingenious inspirer of hope. 

Coleridge. 



AUGUST 10. 

If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue 
the use of wine, do it for the sake of 
others ; if it is a great sacrifice, do it for 
your own. 

Samuel J. May. 



^LofC^tetM 






AUGUST II. 
To believe in the heroic makes heroes. 



Disraeli. 



AUGUST 12. 

Straight from the Mighty Bow this 

truth is driven ; 
They fail, and they alone, who have 

not striven. 

Clarence Urmy. 



•Catcbworbs 



AUGUST 13. 

He who is firm in will molds the 
world to himself. 

Goethe. 



AUGUST 14. 

Life without labor is guilt ; labor 
without art is brutality. 

Ruskin. 



lapf Ct) cet^iiei^M 



AUGUST 15. 

The aids to noble life are all within, 

Matthew Arnold. 

AUGUST 16. 

The highest compact we can make 
with our fellows is : . . . Let there be 
truth between us two forevermore. 

Emerson, 



^C^tcbtoorbs 



AUGUST 17. 

For a man to have an ideal in this 
world, for a man to know what an ideal 
is, this also is to have lived. 

Gerald Stanley Lee. 



AUGUST 18. 

The real importances of our existence 
are the nothingnesses of every day. 

Beatrice Harriden. 



iSiof Ct) ^evMM^m 



AUGUST 19. 

Praise loudly : blame softly. 

Catherine II. 



AUGUST 20. 

This is the best day the world has 
ever seen. To-morrow will be better. 



R. A. Campbell. 



[C^tcbTOor^s 



AUGUST 21. 

The ornament of a house is the friends 
that frequent it. 

Emerson. 



AUGUST 22. 

We say we exchange words when wc 
meet. What we exchange is souls. 

Minot J. Savage. 



iSiof Ch e^Y^eM^iM 



AUGUST 23. 

The virtue lies in the struggle, not 
in the prize. 

Lord Houghton. 



AUGUST 24, 

Anyone can carry his burden, how- 
ever heavy, till nightfall. Anyone can 
do his v^ork, however hard, for one day. 
Anyone can live sweetly, lovingly, pure- 
ly, till the sun goes down. And this is 
all that life really means. 

British Weekly. 



^CatCtjTOOT^S 



AUGUST 25. 

A man is never so noble as when he 
is reverent. 

Carlyle. 

AUGUST 26. 

Childhood itself is scarcely more love- 
ly than a cheerful, kind, sunshiny old 
age. 

Lydia Maria Child. 



^of ci^ccr:^ 



AUGUST 27. 

All who joy would win 
Must share it, — Happiness was born a 
twin. 

Lord Byron. 



AUGUST 18. 

To do anything in this world worth 
doing, we must not stand back shiver- 
ing and thinking of the cold and danger, 
but jump in and scramble through as 
best we can. 

Sydney Smith. 



^^S^C^tcbtoor^s 



AUGUST 29. 

He that can have patience can have 
vv^hat he vi^ilL 

Lowell. 



AUGUST 30. 

If I were you, I would not worry. 
Just make up your mind to do better 
when you get another chance, and be 
content with that. 

Beatrice Harriden. 



^of Ct) ^etmt^m 



AUGUST 31. 

Mind your own business with your 
absolute heart and soul ; but see that it 
is a good business first. 

Ruskin. 




cptcmber 



IN MONTHS OF SUN SO LIVE 
THAT MONTHS OF RAIN SHALL 
STILL BE HAPPY. 

FROM THE ''MAHABARATA". 




^^S^atct)woT&s 



SEPTEMBER i. 

Wealth is not his that has it, but his 
that enjoys it. 

Franklin. 



SEPTEMBER 2. 

Do the duty which lies nearest thee. 
. . . Thy second Duty will already have 
become clearer. 

Carlyle. 



^of Ct)fer: 



m^emm: 



SEPTEMBER 3. 

Those who can command themselves 
command others. 

Hazlitt. 



SEPTEMBER 4. 

If there is any person to whom you 
feel a dislike, that is the person of whom 
you ought never to speak. 

Rev. Richard Cecil. 



^S^C^tCb'lOOTbS 



SEPTEMBER 5. 

It is not work that kills men ; it is 
worry. 

Henry Ward Beecher. 



SEPTEMBER 6. 

He is alone a man who can resist the 
genius of the age, the tone of fashion, 
with rigorous simplicity and modest 
courage. 

J. C. Lavater. 



^Of CI) eeriKlK^m 



SEPTEMBER 7. 

True love never nags ; it trusts. 

Anna Robertson Brown. 



SEPTEMBER 8. 

It should be the highest end of ed- 
ucation to give a man that culture which 
shall make him to enjoy the beauty of 
the world. 

Ruskin. 



I^CatctjTOorbs 



SEPTEMBER 9. 

We are all richer than we think we 
are. 

Montaigne. 



SEPTEMBER 10. 

What a wedge, what a beetle, what 
a catapult is an earnest man. What can 
resist him? 

Thoreau. 



istof C^ ^^t^sM^m 



SEPTEMBER ii. 

A laugh is worth a hundred groans 
in any market. 

Charles Lamb. 



SEPTEMBER 12. 

Fight when you are down ; die hard, 
— determine at least so to do, — and you 
won't die at all. 

James H. West. 



[CatcbTOOTbs 



SEPTEMBER 13. 

**More depends on the will power 
than on the brain power/' 



SEPTEMBER 14. 

The man who has lived longest is not 
the man who has counted the most years, 
but he who has enjoyed life most. 

^ Rousseau. 



tSiPf Cb eetfejgt^m 



SEPTEMBER 15. 

The chief mission of all words . . . 
that they should be of comfort. 

Ruskin. 



SEPTEMBER 16. 

Two-thirds of all that makes it *beau- 
tiful to be alive' consists in cup-offerings 
of water. 

IV. C. Gannett. 



SCatcbtDor&s 



SEPTEMBER 17. 

To rejoice in the prosperity of an- 
other is to partake of it. 

William Austin. 



SEPTEMBER 18. 

I never knew an early-rising, hard- 
working, prudent man, careful of his 
means, and stridlly honest, who com- 
plained of bad luck. 

Addison^ 



t^ofC^eet 



^..Mm^ 



SEPTEMBER 19. 

"The path of progress for each indi- 
vidual soul lies along the pathway of 
hope/' 



SEPTEMBER 20. 

The lover of nature has retained the 
spirit of infancy into the era of man- 
hood. ... In the presence of nature a 
wild delight runs through the man, in 
spite of real sorrow. 

Emerson. 



^Catcbworbs 



SEPTEMBER 21. 

They are the true disciples of Christ, 
not who know most, but who love most. 

Spanheim. 



SEPTEMBER 22. 

The world delights in sunny people. 
. . . The old are hungering for love 
more than for bread. The air of joy is 
very cheap ; and if you can help the poor 
on with a garment of praise, it will be 
better for them than blankets. 

Henry Drummond. 



tSkPt CI) ceri^ES^M 

SEPTEMBER 23. 

The great soul of the world is just. 

Carlyle. 



SEPTEMBER 24. 

The theory of work is to be lavish of 
personal experience, to put a great deal of 
oneself into the thing which we under- 
take, whatever we do. 

Rev. D. W. J. Tucker. 



[C^tCb-TOOT^S 



SEPTEMBER 25. 

He is happiest be he king or peasant, 
who finds peace in his own home. 

Goethe. 



SEPTEMBER 26. 

There is distinction between good 
and bad work, not between brain-work 
and hand-work. 

Hiram Gold^ the Shoemaker. 



^of C1)fef; 



,^g,:M^^^. 



SEPTEMBER 27. 

To a consecrated man or woman 
money is no objedt. 

Thomas K. Beecher. 



SEPTEMBER 28. 

A happy man or woman is a better 
thing to find than a five pound note . . . 
they practically demonstrate the Theo- 
rem of the Livableness of Life. 

R. L. Stevenson. 






SEPTEMBER ag. 

Manners rest on the two fundamentals 
of human intercourse — Truth and Sym- 
pathy. 

Edward Carpenter. 



SEPTEMBER 30. 

Lift up thy brow and with a great 
heart heave away this storm. 

Shakespeare. 





clober 



A HAZE ON THE FAR HORIZON, 

AN INFINITE, TENDER SKY, 
AND RIPE, RICH TINTS IN THE 
CORNFIELD, 
AND WILD GEESE SAILING 
HIGH, 
AND ALL OVER UPLAND AND 
LOWLAND 
THE CHARM OF THE GOLDEN- 
ROD,— 
SOME OF US CALL IT AUTUMN ; 
BUT OTHERS CALL IT GOD. 

WM. HERBERT CJRRUTH, 



*C^tCt)TOOT&S 



OCTOBER I. 

A man's fortunes arc the fruit of his 
character, 

Emerson. 



OCTOBER 2, 

Whatever the weather be, love, ad- 
mire, delight in it, and vov^ that you 
would not change it for the atmosphere 
of a dream. 

Christopher North. 



iSiof Cb eev^M^iM 



OCTOBER 3. 

A handful of good life is worth a 
bushel of learning. 

George Herbert. 



OCTOBER 4. 

It is aspiration that counts, not realiz- 
ation ; pursuit, not achievement ; quest, 
not conquest. 

Beatrice Harriden. 



^^i^C^tcb'Oior^s 



OCTOBER 5. 

It is an everlasting duty • . . the 
duty of being brave. 

Carlyle. 



OCTOBER 6. 

Believe in the better side of men. . . . 
It is optimism that really saves people. 

Ian Maclaren. 



tS^of Cb^^i":^ 



OCTOBER 7. 

To understand everything, is to for- 
give everything. 

Gautama. 



OCTOBER 8. 

"I shall pass through this world but 
once. Any good thing therefore that 
I can do, or any kindness that I can shovs^ 
to any human being, let me do it novv^ 
• • . for I shall not pass this way again." 



'CatCtjTOOTbS 



OCTOBER 9. 

To enter Heaven a man must take it 
with him. 

Henry Drummond. 



OCTOBER 10. 

More and more I feel that every sort 
of salvation we do attain to in this life 
must be worked out by ourselves. 

Lydia Maria Child. 



ISLOf Ct)^^t*; 



m'ie^?^, 



OCTOBER II. 

Be so kind as to be just. 



Tboreau. 



OCTOBER 12. 

Content I live; this is my stay — 
I seek no more than may suffice. 

Look, what I lack my mind supplies. 

William Byrd. 



'atCt)TOOTbS 



OCTOBER 13. 

"When the outlook is not good, try 
the uplook/' 



OCTOBER 14. 

The only preparation for the life 
after death, is to live nobly the life 
before death. 

Lilian Whiting. 



^Of Cb^^t":^ 



^s^^Sf^^^^ 



OCTOBER 15. 

Heaven in sunshine will requite the 
kind. 

Lord Byron. 



OCTOBER 16. 

Finish every day and be done with 
it, ... You have done what you 
could ; some blunders and absurdities 
crept in ; forget them as soon as you 
can. Tomorrow is a new day ; you 
shall begin it well and serenely and 
with too high a spirit to be encumbered 
with your old nonsense. 

Emerson. 



Bi^S^C^tct)tPor»s 



OCTOBER 17. 

The kingdom of heaven is not a 
place but a state of mind. 

John Burroughs, 



OCTOBER 18. 

We have . . . only to trust, and do 
our best, and wear as smiling a face as 
may be for ourselves and others. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



%2L0f CI) ^^t^sM^M 



OCTOBER 19. 

Turn the sunny side of things to 
human eyes. 

Mary Howitt. 



OCTOBER 20. 

There is as much danger of our being 
selfish in our sorrows and losses, as in 
our pleasures and gains. 

Minot J. Savage. 



l^^atcbwoTbs 



OCTOBER 21. 

You are right there ; '^the gay frip- 
pery" drags us down. 

Auerbach. 



OCTOBER 22. 

Politeness is like an air cushion; 
there's nothing in it, but it eases the 
joints wonderfully. 

W. C. Gannett. 



\ 



^tofC^eev^ 



OCTOBER 23. 

Our life is what our thoughts make 
it. 

Marcus Aurelius. 

OCTOBER 24 

Let a man contend to the uttermost 
For his life's set prize, be it what it will. 

Browning. 



[C^tcbwoT^s 



OCTOBER 25. 

The heart has eyes the brain knows 
nothing of. 

Dr. Parkhurst. 



OCTOBER 26. 

An aspiration is a joy forever, a pos- 
session as solid as a landed estate. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



tSiof Ch i^r-fsM^m, 



OCTOBER 27, 

Antagonism invites antagonism. 

Horace Fletcher. 



OCTOBER 28. 

Oh, there is no man, no woman, so 
small that they cannot make their life 
great by high endeavor. 

Carlyle. 



^C^tcbwoT^s 



OCTOBER 09. 

It is the people who know how to 
rest, who do continuous good work. 

Beatrice Harriden. 



OCTOBER 30. 

Wise men regret as little as they can. 
. . . The only real blasphemy . . . 
may be that pessimistic temper of the 
soul which lets it give way to such 
things as regrets, remorse, and grief. 

William James. 



^LOfC^ett: 



'^■^■J'M^^^ 



I 



OCTOBER 31, 

If I can stop one heart from breaking, 
I shall not live in vain ; 

If I can ease one life the aching, 
Or cool one pain, 

Or help one fainting robin 
Into his nest again, 
I shall not live in vain. 

Emily Dickinson. 




oucmb^r 



"WHO SAID NOVEMBER'S FACE 

WAS GRIM? 
WHO SAID HER VOICE WAS 

HARSH AND SAD? 

jft tjt tjj ijj »jt 

BLACK NOVEMBER SOWS THE 
SEEDS OF MAY." 




•CatcbTOorbs 



NOVEMBER i. 

People who lead busy lives never find 
time to have hysterics. 

Dr. J. M. Studley. 



NOVEMBER 2. 

If a man were to place himself in an 
attitude to bear manfully the greatest 
evil that could be inflicted on him, he 
would suddenly find that there was no 
evil to bear. 

T^horeau. 



^Of Ct)PCt*; 



^^J|K^«^ 



NOVEMBER 3. * 

There is always work, 
And tools to work withal, for those 
who will. 

Lowell. 



NOVEMBER 4. 

Resolve. 
To keep my health ! 
To do my work ! 
To live ! 
To see to it I grow and gain and give ! 

Charlotte Perkins Stetson. 



^C^tcbtooT^s 



NOVEMBER 5. 

** Happiness like virtue is acquired 
by practice." 



NOVEMBER 6. 

Our greatest glory consists not in 
never falling, but in rising every time 
wrc fall. 

Goldsmith. 



%2Lof Cb 



itmmf^ 



NOVEMBER 7. 
Heaven is Weil-Doing. 



NOVEMBER 8. 

If you would have a faithful servant, 
and one that you like, serve yourself. 

Franklin. 



^CatcbTOOT^s 



NOVEMBER 9. 

We learn to know nothing but the 
thing we love. 

Goethe. 



NOVEMBER 10. 

Hold up your head ! You were not 
made for failure, you were made for 
victory : go forward with a joyful con- 
fidence in that result sooner or later, and 
the sooner or later depends mainly on 
yourself. 

Anne Gilchrist, 



^tof-C^Qet 



m^$if^. 



NOVEMBER ii. 

Charadier is very much a matter of 
health. 

C. C. Bovee. 



NOVEMBER 12. 

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me 
a heart replete with thankfulness. 

Shakespeare. 



^C^^tcbtooT^s 



NOVEMBER 13. 

Economy is of itself a great revenue. 

Cicero. 



NOVEMBER 14. 

We arc not to carry others' burdens 
that they can carry as well as ourselves. 

Dr. G. Mears. 



L_ 



iSiof C^eeT^eM^:m 



NOVEMBER 15. 

I wish, I can, I will — these are the 
three trumpet notes to victory. 

Tbe Outlook. 



NOVEMBER 16. 

The only way to speak the truth is 
to speak lovingly. Only the lover's 
words are heard. 

Thoreau. 



^CatcbTOOT^s 



NOVEMBER 17. 

The sweetest pleasure is in imparting 
it. 

Emerson. 



NOVEMBER 18. 

// 

/ Out of suffering have emerged the 

strongest souls ; the most massive char- 
acters are seamed with scars. 



Rev. E. H. Chapin. 



tSiOf Ct^eet^:^ 



NOVEMBER 19. 

We fall to rise ; are baffled to fight 
better. 

Browning. 



NOVEMBER 20. 

No run on my bank can drain it, for 
my wealth is not possession but enjoy- 
ment. 

Thoreau. 



^C^tcbworbs 



NOVEMBER 21. 

To think a thing to be noble and 
endurable is to make it so. 

Marcus Aurelius. 



NOVEMBER 22. 

Two things will never happen to 
me, — the thing that is too much for 
me and the thing that is not best for 
me. 

Anna Robertson Brown. 



«2ipf Cllf^l" 



3I^P^^\ 



NOVEMBER 23. 
"Enthusiasm is the life of the soul." 



NOVEMBER 24. 

Have the courage to appear poor, 
and you disarm poverty of its sharpest 
sting. 

Mrs. Jameson. 



[C^tcfttoor^s 



NOVEMBER 25. 

Every man rejoices twice when he 
has a partner for his joy. 

Jeremy Taylor. 



NOVEMBER 26. 

With malice toward none, with char- 
ity for all, with firmness in the right as 
God gives us to see the right, let us strive 
on. 

Abraham Lincoln. 



iSiof Cb itr^m^m 



NOVEMBER 27. 

Either I will find a way or make one. 

Wordsworth. 



NOVEMBER 28. 

Not how much talent have I, but how 
much will to use the talent that I have, 
is the main question. 

W. C. Gannett. 



^QES^C^tcbtDorbs 



NOVEMBER 29. 

The best hearts, Trim, are ever the 
bravest. 

Dean Swift. 

NOVEMBER 30. 

Ask of God to give thee skill 

In comfort's art. 
That thou mayst consecrated be 

And set apart 
Unto a life of sympathy ; 
For heavy is the weight of ill 

In every heart; 
And comforters are needed much 

Of Christ-like touch. 

A. E. Hamilton. 



%Siof Cl)fcr; 




eccmb^r 



THE TRUMPET OF PROPHECY ! 

O WIND, 
IF WINTER COMES, CAN SPRING 

BE FAR BEHIND ? 

SHELLEY. 




ICatcbTOor^s 



DECEMBER i. 

Do your own work in your own way. 

W. M. Hunt. 



DECEMBER 2. 

To be everywhere and everything in 
sympathy, and yet content to remain 
where and what you are — is not this to 
know both wisdom and virtue and to 
dwell with happiness. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



4Si.of Cb ceriKit^^ 



DECEMBER 3. 

When I was sick I did not discourse 
to my visitors about my diseases, or the 
torment I was troubled with. 

Epictetus. 



DECEMBER 4. 

If a man expects and believes great 
things of himself, it makes no odds 
where you put him. 

"Thoreau. 



DECEMBER 5. 

"The virtue of originality is not new- 
ess — it is only genuineness." 



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DECEMBER 6. 

* In course of time men and women 
will be ashamed to be ill. Especially 
will men and women . . . deem it a 
disgrace to have their children or grand- 
children diseased or deformed. 



James H. West. 



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DECEMBER 7. 

People do not lack strength; they 
lack will. 

Victor Hugo. 



DECEMBER 8, 

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, 
genuine sincerity, is the first character- 
istic of all men in any way heroic. 

Carlyle. 



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DECEMBER 9. 

The fine art of living is to draw from 
each person his best. 

Lilian Whiting. 

DECEMBER 10. 

Things go ; but first they come. Fast- 
en the mind on that. . . . We cannot 
lose, but that already we have had. . . . 
Therefore turn the mind from our losing 
to our having had. 

James Vilas Blake. 



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DECEMBER ii. 

Your work is one sort of prayer. It's 
good for nothing if it isn't. 

JV. M. Hunt. 



DECEMBER 12. 

A man who dares waste an hour of 
time has not learned the value of life. 

Charles Darwin. 



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DECEMBER 13. 

"Even if I faint by the wayside . . . 
it is something to be on the road that 
leads to the High Ideals/' 



DECEMBER 14. 

That which the best human nature is 
capable of is within the reach of human 
nature at large. 

Herbert Spencer. 



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DECEMBER 15. 

It is a joy to think the best we can 
Of humankind. 

Wordsworth. 



DECEMBER 16. 

All who have meant good work with 
their whole hearts, have done good 
work, although they may die before 
they have time to sign it. 

R. L. Stevenson. 



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DECEMBER 17. 

^^Wearing marks of age and sorrow 
As the midnight wears its stars." 



DECEMBER 18. 

We shall all be equal at the last, 
Be classed according to life's natural 

ranks, 
Fathers, sons, brothers, friends, not rich, 

nor wise, nor gifted. 

Browning. 



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DECEMBER 19. 

"Filling more and more with crystal 

light 
As pensive evening deepens into night." 



DECEMBER 20. 

He only is advancing in life, whose 
heart is getting softer, whose blood 
warmer, whose brain quicker, whose 
spirit is entering the living Peace. 

Ruskin. 



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DECEMBER 21. 

''Opportunity? A good, strong man 
will make his own opportunity/' 



DECEMBER 22. 

That is what I shall think of: that 
God will give each of us another chance, 
and that each one of us will take it and 
do better — I and you and every one. 

Beatrice Harriden. 



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DECEMBER 23. 

For the will and not the gift makes 
the giver. 

Lessing 



DECEMBER 24. 

He gives nothing but worthless gold 
Who gives from a sense of duty. 

LowelL 



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DECEMBER 25. 

''Not to be ministered unto, but to 
minister, is the secret of Christmas Day; 
the secret of all joy, growth and power." 



DECEMBER a6. 

Live in a thankful spirit, and you 
will have more and more to be thank- 
ful for. 

Brooke Herford. ^ 



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DECEMBER 27. 

"The more trouble, the more lion : 
that's my principle." 



DECEMBER 28, 

Time brings only one regret, that 
we had not more joy in the things that 
were, more belief, more patience, more 
love, more knowledge of the way things 
work out; more willingness to help 
toward the final result, 

Jennie June. 



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DECEMBER 29. 

Death comes not to the living soul 
Nor age to the loving heart. 

Phoehe Cary, 



DECEMBER 30. 

Birth and death are the vesper and 
the matin bells, that summon mankind 
to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new 
advancement. 

Carlyle. 






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DECEMBER 31. 

Immortality will come to such as are 
fit for it. 

Emerson. 



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